My mysterious source (a really easy to find youtube channel) only seems to have the clipped third fall up which is a bummer as I was really looking forward to this. We work with what we have though. They're using a wide camera angle to get all of the guys so it's a little hard to see what's going on. They start with Buddy working on Lightfoot. Destroyer in and Lightfoot fights back but gets cut off. Rose takes him to the heel corner, goes for a turnbuckle treatment, but he slams Oliver and Cortez' head together and makes a hot tag to Youngblood who starts the war dance on Destroyer. Youngblood misses a dropkick, eats a grounded headbutt by Destroyer(I love how that's his primary offensive move) and the heels tag Oliver in and cut off the ring. Heels are working well here. Lots of double teaming where one guy holds Youngblood and the other one hits him. Which sets up Oliver accidentally hitting Cortez and Youngblood scoring the pin. Oliver slaps Cortez post match and fights back, including doing this hilarious thing where he turns around in a circle to get the fans excited. The army swarm and use the Castro Head on a Pole to just decimate Cortez, with Oliver doing most of the dirty work. The faces finally make the save. Post match Cortez does a pretty impassioned bloody promo.
Yep, the guy who walks around with a Castro head on a stick is turning face. I think after watching two years or so of Portland I'm finally starting to see some angles replay. Buddy being afraid of Youngblood was something we'd seen before with Stasiak and the heart punch. This was reminiscent of the Piper/Brooks turn on Piper, though the execution was different with the faces helping Cortez after the match. It almost felt like the Gagne/Blackwell hug. This sets up Oliver vs Cortez around the circuit. Boyd and Rose is still the main match with Rose/Oliver vs Lightfoot/Youngblood being the other big match. Shame we didn't have this full match here.
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